Use beads, pipe cleaners, and paper clips to model all four types of molecules studied in a traditional high school biology biochemistry unit. Students will model monomers, polymers, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids (DNA and RNA).

Independent Assortment is crucial to understanding high school biology but is a difficult topic to teach, because it is pretty abstract. A good visual is key to teaching meiosis, chromosome genetics, and karyotypes. My students really love having

These 115 biology homework pages are full of pictures, diagrams, and deeper questions covering everything from the characteristics of life to evolution and ecology. These worksheets cover a standard high school biology curriculum which includes

This lesson really helped my students learn their functional groups in a fun way! In this visual lesson titled "Scariest Worksheet Ever", students color code alcohol, sulfhydryl, amine, and carboxyl groups on a "scary" worksheet full of monomers

Teaching about cell transport mechanisms in high school biology is a challenge because it is such a visual topic! Students need to really SEE how the processes work. Use this resource to help you teach about osmosis, diffusion, active transport,

Students will form groups and produce a physical model of their organelle, write and copy a fact sheet to distribute to their classmates, and present their research to their class! This project takes about one week to complete.
As a teacher, I

As a science teacher, I know how hard it is to find a meaningful sub plan that a substitute can complete with your class. Why not choose science literacy reading strategies as the lesson goal every time you have to be out of the classroom?
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Science literacy reading strategies can be hard to teach and this lesson is designed to help students learn how to read scientific literature at their grade level. It can also be used as a sub plan! Students will read about zombie ants and learn

This high school biology mini-unit is designed to be a basic introduction to three essential biotechnology tools: PCR, Restriction Enzymes, and gel electrophoresis. Great for teachers with no access to do biotech activities or labs in class!

In your high school biology class, do you want to explain how cells get chromosome genetic abnormalities like deletion, duplication, inversion, and translocation? Do you want your students to be active in their learning and discover for themselves

Using this high school chemistry puzzle, students will color a pattern on and around a fish using the periodic table! They determine whether each element is a metal, nonmetal, or metalloid and then color it accordingly, just like those good ol'

Included in this bundle are 12 different graphing pages! Each page gives the students a different scenario, data, and space to graph that data. Each page then includes 1-3 questions that ask the student to analyze the graph. Many provide a

Review, quiz, or play games with these Biochemistry Task Cards Set plus Editable Template! There are 60 questions in all, so you can pick and choose which questions you want your students to use. You also have access to my easy to edit template to

Teaching Protein Synthesis (Replication, Transcription, and Translation) is a challenge! In this bundle, there are detailed and carefully designed diagrams for your students to write on, label, and underline.

Use this coloring page to help students visualize the different parts of the cell membrane in high school biology class! The great thing about this page is the presence of a coloring guide that actually shows students what they are looking for.

This lesson is designed to help students with science literacy reading strategies and can be used as a sub plan! Students will analyze real data from a case study of patients who caught H1N1 virus on an airplane flight, the first H1N1 cases to

Review, quiz, or play games with these Chemistry Task Cards Set that feature stoichiometry and mole problems! There are 60 questions in all, so you can pick and choose which questions you want your students to use. You also have access to my easy to

Help your students learn how to write a proper a proper lab report, one section at a time with my science lab report writing skills activities!
This resource is a folder with 6 different non-editable activity packets (in PDF form) and one

Using this high school chemistry puzzle, students will color a pattern on and around a frog while they practice identifying valence electron numbers! They determine whether each atom has 1-8 valence electrons and then color it accordingly, just like

This worksheet acts as a great review for both transcription and translation in high school biology class. I find my students need a simple, straightforward way to distinguish between the two processes. When they actually create the mRNA code from

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I teach high school science and math. I have taught for 5 years in private and public school. I have taught and tutored all levels and all types of science!
I served on my district's science curriculum committee and I am passionate about lesson creation. Helping teachers with curriculum shouldn't be passing down a list of requirements and forcing them to come up with lessons to support that list. Helping teachers with curriculum should mean giving them lesson ideas, tips, and sample lessons to inspire them and give them the tools they need to help their individual students succeed.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I use a mixture of demonstrations, step-by-step tutorials plus question sets, and hands-on-learning activities. I do my best to create activities that encourage students to ask deeper questions. I don't like to use Powerpoints, except as a way to display pictures relevant to the activity we are doing. I think students learn best by doing and interacting with materials in front of them instead of copying notes from a slide.
My favorite tool I use in teaching is a wireless gaming keyboard that I can use anywhere in my classroom to control the computer and projector! I like to be on the move, all over my classroom.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Proud sponsor and mentor of several local and regional science fair winners.
Co-founder of an award winning robotics club that started at one of the schools I taught at.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Masters in Biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, '07
Bachelors in Genetics from Rutgers University, '05